My Mark: My City - People Are Calling For Change

📷: A public climate action event in São Paulo, Brazil, with partners from our programme ‘My Mark: My City’, Pimp My Carroça and Instituto Procomum.

The world faces urgent, interconnected challenges such as conflict, climate change, poverty, and inequality. People are calling for change.

By working together, building on empathy, care, and connection, can ‘the many’ influence decision-makers and demand action at speed.

The voice and action of youth is vital when it comes to countering growing apathy and populism, and their choices and voices, insights and innovative solutions can help push policy makers to make much-needed systemic changes, and business leaders to produce sustainably.🌱

The image on the left is of the two partners from our programme, where both are pioneering civil society organisations working on this agenda in highly creative ways, using graffiti art to give visibility to the issue. Studies indicate that Baixada Santista is one of the Brazilian regions that will suffer the most from the impacts of climate change, with a high risk of coastal flooding due to rising sea levels.